Ukrzaliznytsia: decision on frozen scrap auctions

Ukrzaliznytsia promises to make a decision by the end of April on unblocking or canceling tenders for the sale of scrap metal conducted in the Prozorro, this is reported by the railway transport news portal Railway Supply.

Sales system before the full-scale invasion of Russia in February 2022.

This was announced by the member of the Ukrzaliznytsia board Yevhen Shramko during a working meeting in the Verkhovna Rada committee on economic development on April 9.

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“This concerns the tenders that were held before the start of the full-scale war. We have already initiated an analysis of this issue to make decisions. Hopefully, by the end of April, we will make a decision,” he said.

In turn, the GR director of Interpipe Natalia Sidoruk reported that Ukrzaliznytsia has been unable to resolve the issue of frozen auctions for over two years.

“In mid-February 2022, one of our enterprises – Dneprosteel – was declared the winner of several auctions. We should receive approximately 17 thousand tons of scrap metal from Ukrzaliznytsia, but then the full-scale invasion began. Then, for 1.5 years, we asked Ukrzaliznytsia either to cancel these tenders so that they would return our 10 million hryvnias of deposit, or to sign them. In January 2024, we signed these contracts on our side, sent them to Ukrzaliznytsia, but the issue remains unresolved because Ukrzaliznytsia does not want to sign,” she said.

The director of Metinvest-Resource Ivan Kovalevsky confirmed that they are experiencing the same problem with frozen tenders.

“Any decision by Ukrzaliznytsia on this issue suits us: either signing contracts or terminating them. We will either receive scrap metal from Ukrzaliznytsia or money to buy this scrap elsewhere,” he emphasized.

As reported earlier, metallurgists are asking the Verkhovna Rada to influence the unlocking of scrap sales by Ukrzaliznytsia.

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